[s-cars] Re: Manual Trannies -- was no more Audis

[William Noland]

Face the facts, Bob -- we're manual tranny dinosaurs.  The old men (who 
rule the world) are getting fat and lazy and the young pups are all 
raised on video games -- neither seems to have the desire to shift for 
themselves. Only my first car had a slushbox and it was a hand-me-down 
beater from my sister -- aka the White Whale. (I'm talking about the car 
here -- not my sister.) The rest have had proper transmissions.

Though I can appreciate the technology behind the DSG and embrace 
certain "driver aids", such as ABS, I dread the day when I'm forced to 
give up the thrill of a properly executed blip-throttle downshift. I 
might be tempted into a sequential manual gearbox (as found in Champ 
Cars), as I have lived with them on motorcycles for years, but that's 
about as far as this dinosaur will go.

Bill Noland
loving life in the Jurassic Period



>Actually, I think those technologies are more likely to hasten the demise of the true manual.  For me, as long as I have a left leg and a right arm I will drive a manual.  No matter how good the SMG/DSG type transmissions may be they remove that involvement that I so enjoy about driving a manual and just make it more like a video game.
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